Wake the f@#k UP!!!
Masks dont work. Especially these cheesy fabric flaps that seem to be a common sight now.Heres the test: go find your flatulant uncle or aunt Sadie who wears way too much perfume. Get within ten feet of them and take a good hard draw through the nose.Smell anything other than your own halitosis?Yes?Your mask did NOTHING to protect you. Masks are PPE: personal protective equipment. If they dont protect you they arent protecting anyone. And dont even try to drop that pissing your pants analogy on me. It was BS from the git-go, even if humorous.Heres the point again from a more intellectual stance. The Covid19 virus is tiny, very tiny, so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope. Flatulance contains hydrocarbon chains that are small, but LONG. If those can get through your mask, that virus beat them through with less effort.What a mask does do is traps moisture close to your face, moisture that holds molds fungus and other nasties that DO MAKE YOU SICK. Proof positive to me was seeing the allergy aisle at chinamart wiped right the f#$k out yesterday. No benadryl, nothing, a few of the odd balls that most people have found do jackshit for them, but the usuals are all gone. (I went for Dramamine which is near that section)All of this started because a medical bureaucrat who hasnt “practiced ” medicine in 35+years and has a history of blowing shit out of proportion opened the doors for every third rate tinpot wanna be dictator to play.What I find especially interesting is how a Republican prez can have his executive orders shot down by a lefty Judge and the judges decree sticks. But when a lefty Governor has his exective orders shot down by a Right leaning FEDERAL judge, and the judges decree is completely fucking ignored DESPITE PUBLIC OUTCRY.Civil disobedience people. Do it!!!If a place refuses you service because you refuse to don the flap of submission, so what, go somewhere else. Don’t make a fuss, just leave. When enough people take thier money elsewhere, they’ll “get it”, and relax from stupid OR they will eventually shut the doors.When I went to that place where I saw the total lack of allergy remedies, they asked me to put on my mask. My response “Nope!” And walked right on in. No kerfluffle, no arguing, no refusal of service. And 90% of those inside weren’t complying either. Even saw one guy with the mask hooked over his ears, but the flap was on the back of his head: now thats a sweet visual FYAYSS if I ever saw one. This morning on my way out, stopped at a local truckstop for my usual caffeine fix. Girly behind counter asked me to put on mask. I like her so I was nicer this time; asked “if I don’t are you going to refuse service?” She shook her head ‘no’ and I could see the smile in her eyes.
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C’mon now. Nobody’s claiming the masks protect YOU. They protect everyone around you when YOU’RE sick. And you can be sick and not know it. You can smell the fart, but can you blow out a candle a ft. away?
As for the allergy meds, allergies are a real thing. I have them year round. Lots of people do. How’s the Robitussin stock? I have no problem getting medicine around here, but then I’m in a much bigger metro area than you.
IMHO, there are extremes to both sides. I believe in masks in public- I’ve been religious about it when I go to stores. But I haven’t done so well when hanging about with the neighbors. You’re saying this is overblown, but are you not over blowing on the opposite side? No one said masks are forever. No one’s talking about chips to track you. The contact tracing is *optional*.
It kinda sounds like you’re fear mongering for the “other side” if that makes sense, and you pit science against government.
I’m not asking or expecting you to start wearing a mask. You have your reasons and your autonomy just as everyone else. (Although I wish you would, because… science. But your choice.) But what if the government is not as horrible as you think? What if the virus is not as horrible as the media says? Does it hurt you to wear a mask? (A ventilator is worse, I’m told.) You’re afraid that people are being brainwashed by the government. But just in case…. are you being brain washed by the “other side”?
All things in moderation? (ish, don’t go extreme on that.)
Long story short- yes, the media is probably over blowing the proportion of the pandemnic and there is some fear mongering going on. But in my opinion, it kinda sounds like you’re doing some fear mongering about how much power the government is grabbing for? There are plenty of facts to support both positions. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean that either of us are right. 🙂
OK, perhaps fear mongering and brain washing aren’t the right terms. I suck with words. Just, if you’re going to tell everyone else to wake up and give a chance that what you’re saying is Truth, would you be willing to give consideration that the science has some Truth, too? They’re not mutually exclusive, or don’t have to be.
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July 11, 2020 at 10:22 am
And as for being ‘brainwashed by the other side” . What otherside? I do my own research and make up my own mind. Did you?
I’ve worked in hospitals, I know the nature of the masks. I had to be fitted with them and certified for a particular brand to be allowed in the ORs to fix their PCs. If it wont stop the virus getting in, how the hell will it stop it getting out when behind the mask is a positive pressure system when you exhale.
Nick. I love you like a sister but you are being force fed a bunch of crap with a false label of Science. You’re smarter than that!!!!
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July 11, 2020 at 10:32 am
For the record, your uber comment has many points and you hit me with when I was dealing with a bunch of other crap as well. My apologies, I shoild have let it simmer before slamming back on commants.
BUT,
That being said, isn’t ‘fear mongering’ how we manages to get to where we are?
“You’re afraid people are being brainwashed by the government” no fear there, its fact and its called public education. Met a young man today while kayaking in a group and we had almost an hour discussing matter energy and how they all tie together. He’s 9!!! Discussing stuff I was not taught until 10th grade! He is also homeschooled! And I have listed this as a major PEEVE of mine for years.
As for the science. If you are going by all that the media is spewing and not adking questions, what you are paying attention to is PROPAGANDA., not science. How many times have the changed their tune on ‘they help’ to ‘ they may help some’ to ‘they definitely help’ and then tirn around and make it a mandatory thing. What if they told you were to say “hey, we really arent sure, but maybe sequestering yourself if you have other issues and wearing a proper mask will protect you” instead of this “because we told you to” like we are all children and need to be lead.
But that will take me off on other tangents.
Choice.
I make my choice to fly the birds of freedom.
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July 11, 2020 at 7:42 pm
OK, it’s kinda hilarious that the next email after your post was the Sign Word of the Day…. https://www.signschool.com/signoftheday/ Flexible. 😀
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July 11, 2020 at 10:26 am
And you know I’m very flexible until people start dictating that I have to live to a set standard. If we are all forced into the same mold, there is nothing to live FOR. IMHO
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July 11, 2020 at 10:49 am
And you know I’m very flexible until people start dictating that I have to live to a set standard. If we are all forced into the same mold, there is nothing to live FOR. IMHO
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July 11, 2020 at 10:54 am
Not feer mongering. Demanding that you THINK because what I see is crap thinking with fallacies generated by petty dictators.
We are NOT on the same page of information. No offense intended.
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July 11, 2020 at 10:28 am
No offense taken. I’ve known you too long to think you like be told what to do, lol. We’re good. 🙂
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July 12, 2020 at 12:07 am
Think silencer ( a misnomer ) rather than suppressors , the proper name.
Sure , masks are not 100% effective. However masks do suppress the volume.
So they do help somewhat…
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July 12, 2020 at 5:15 am
I assume you were looking for Dramamine to help on motion sickness .
Something we found to be effective during our years of sailing offshore. Plain old ginger snap cookies, ginger is very good for this.
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July 12, 2020 at 5:23 am
Yes. And yes. I’ve read that about ginger but hadn’t tried it yet.
I was doing the rolling practice without the Dramamine and then with. As much damage as my ears have sustained over the years, the Dramamine seems to help maintain my orientation when I get close to inverted. With it, I don’t get ‘lost’ in the roll. Without it, I’m all over the place.
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July 12, 2020 at 5:52 am
We always kept ginger snaps on the boat and not once in seven years got sea sick. Saw plenty big water too …
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July 12, 2020 at 4:43 pm
Lol. Was on the USS Tarawa headed to Kuwait December 91. 28′ seas off the Philippine coast. No problems. Put me in a kayak in 2′ seas, problem. Granted 30 years aged and some major physiological changes (inner ear damage) so yeah, may need some help. And I like gingersnaps so it may not be a bad thing to keep in my deckbag. (Cheaper too)
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July 12, 2020 at 5:31 pm